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Cisco has won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for developing top cybersecurity talent by training IT architects to be security architecture sensors and enable security to be “baked” into software applications.
It is one of 14 companies selected from 50 nominations.
The SANS Institute recognizes innovative developments from companies and government agencies who have developed and deployed processes or technologies that have significantly reduce cyber risk, can be scaled quickly to serve large numbers of people and should be adopted by other organizations.
According to the institute, securely designed applications are often far more defensible than applications that use add-on security measures.
Cisco said it encourages its IT architects and engineers to attend the security knowledge empowerment class taught by its top security architects to bring their security training to nearly every design meeting and recognize flaws in design decisions.
